The question that shatters faith, forever.

[Anomalocaris]

Which references are these? Josephus the JEW that confessed He was the Messiah?

For someone that did a great deal of miracles, or even 'party tricks' that got amped up, I find it suspicious that no one of his time had the slightest thing to say about him.

These references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

I too find it suspicious that nobody else mentioned his miracles, but that doesn't automatically mean he never existed. Far more likely is that that stuff was made up or exaggerated after he died.

Actually if you want to look at likely, Occam's razor would say it is more likely the entire thing is a myth. You know, the whole idea of not multiplying entities unnecessarily.

Nothing stretches credulity even a little bit to postulate tha there should once have lived malcontended little fries in Roman Palastine, some without a strong inclination to earn a living the honest way but imagining themselves destined by magic for greater unworldly things, and whose personality disorder and social maladjustment dovetailed fatally with the incendiary atmosphere then present amongst a people with a hallowed tradition of indulging in fantasies of unique divine favor as escape from worldly evidence of severe secular inadaquacy.

There also seem to be little that requires leaps of imagination in the scenario that some such persons would be of such little note that he would be crucified by Romans as a matter of course without so much as a scratch in any official record just as a buzzing fly might be swatted en passant without mention in the dairies.

The fact that one such person might enetually through happenstance become focus for a religion neither adds to nor such tracts from the plausibility. It would be odd if no new religion grew out of the atmosphere then existent in Roman Empire. Like all religions, it has to focus on some bullshit, and malcontented carpenter with a big ego and a bigger lie happen to be it. That this one person happened to have been name Jesus is also neither here nor there.